Sumeri Language

	Sumeri Language Sumuri or Sumeri (one of two Papuan languages also known as Tanah Merah) is a language spoken in Sumuri District, Teluk Bintuni Regency on the Bomberai Peninsula by about a thousand people. Distribution In Sumuri District of Teluk Bintuni Regency, Sumuri people reside in Tofoi (district capital), Materabu Jaya, Forada, Agoda, Saengga, Tanah Merah Baru, Onar Lama, and Onar Baru villages. Classification In the classifications of Malcolm Ross (2005) and Timothy Usher (2020), Sumeri forms an independent branch of the Trans–New Guinea family, but Palmer (2018) classifies it as a language isolate. It does not fit in with any of the established branches of TNG, but based on what little data there is, it would seem to be closest to either the Berau Gulf branches (i.e. South Bird's Head, West Bomberai etc.) or the Asmat–Mombum languages and their relatives further east. Sumeri has previously been linked to the Mairasi languages, but those do not share the TNG pronouns of Sumer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Bomberai Peninsula Bomberai Peninsula () is located in the Western New Guinea region. It is south of the Bird's Head Peninsula, and Bintuni Bay separates the two peninsulas. To the west lies the Sebakor Bay and to the south Kamrau Bay. On the southeast Arguni Bay lies between the peninsula and the Bird's Neck Isthmus. Sabuda island lies off the western tip of the peninsula, and is separated from the mainland by Berau and Bintuni straits. Geography The entire peninsula is covered by a dense tropical rainforest. Most of the peninsula consists of a marshy plain, covered in lowland rainforest. There are smaller areas of montane rainforest in the Fakfak and Kumawa mountains along the peninsula's western edge. Together with the eastern region of Bird's Head Peninsula and offshore islands, the Bomberai Peninsula forms the Indonesian province of West Papua (). The western part of the peninsula is part of Fakfak Regency, the north belongs to Teluk Bintuni Regency and the southeast to Kaiman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mairasi Languages The Mairasi languages, also known as Etna Bay are a small independent language family, family of Papuan languages in the classifications of Malcolm Ross (linguist), Malcolm Ross and Timothy Usher, that had been part of Stephen Wurm's Trans–New Guinea languages, Trans–New Guinea proposal. They are named after Etna Bay, located in the southeastern corner of West Papua (province), West Papua province, in Indonesia. Languages The Mairasi languages are clearly related to each other. * Mairasi family: Semimi language, Semimi, Mer language, Mer, Mairasi language, Mairasi, Northeastern Mairasi language, Northeastern Mairasi Classification Mairasi cannot be linked to other families by its pronouns. However, Voorhoeve (1975) links it to the Sumeri language, Sumeri (Tanah Merah) language, either a language isolate or an independent branch of the Trans–New Guinea family. Pawley and Hammarström (2018) do not consider there to be sufficient evidence for the Mairasi languages to be cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Asmat–Mombum Languages The Asmat–Muli Strait languages are a branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive Language family, family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to the country Papua New Guinea as well as Western New Guinea, parts of Indone ... spoken along the southern coast of Indonesian New Guinea, established by Timothy Usher and Edgar Suter. Protoforms of basic vocabulary include moi 'water', iafVnV 'ear', uase 'name', awoɣ 'breast'. Subdivision Asmat–Muli Strait consists of two primary subgroups: * Asmat–Kamrau * Muli Strait (''or'' Mombum, Komolom) Proto-language Phonology Proto-Asmat–Muli Strait is reconstructed with 12 consonants and 5 vowels: : Vowels are a e i o u. Basic vocabulary Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are: : References External links Timothy Usher & Edgar Suter, New Guinea WorldProto–Asmat – Muli Strait [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	West Bomberai The (Greater) West Bomberai languages are a family of Papuan languages spoken on the Bomberai Peninsula of western New Guinea and in East Timor and neighboring islands of Indonesia. Languages Of the three languages on the mainland, Baham and Iha are closely related to each other while the third is distant, forming a third branch of the family along with the Timor–Alor–Pantar languages: * Mbahaam–Iha: Baham (Mbaham), Iha * Kalamang ( Karas) * Timor–Alor–Pantar This split, with two of the three branches on the mainland, suggests that Timor–Alor–Pantar may be the result of a relatively recent migration from New Guinea, perhaps arriving in the Timor area shortly before the Austronesian languages did, as Austronesian influence post-dates Proto–West Bomberai and even Proto-Timor–Alor–Pantar. History of classification Wurm, Voorhoeve & McElhanon included Timor–Alor–Pantar and mainland West Bomberai as separate stocks within Trans–New Guinea. Ross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	South Bird's Head The South Bird's Head or South Doberai languages are three families of Papuan languages. They form part of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Malcolm Ross (2005) and Timothy Usher (2020), though Pawley and Hammarström (2018) do not consider them to be part of Trans–New Guinea. However, according to Dryer (2022), based on a preliminary quantitative analysis of data from the ASJP database, South Bird's Head languages are likely to be a subgroup of Trans–New Guinea. Languages The languages are as follows, * South Bird's Head Konda-Yahadian (Yabin): Konda, Yahadian Inanwatan (West South Bird's Head): Duriankere, Inanwatan (Suabo) South Bird's Head proper (East South Bird's Head): * Kais (Kampong Baru) * Iwaro–Kaburi Kaburi Puragi (Iwaro) * Kokoda–Arandai ** Kokoda (Tarof, Kasuweri) Arandai * Kemberano (Weriagar, Barau) * Dombano (Tomu) Noting low cognacy rates, Holton and Klamer (2018) tentative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Malcolm Ross (linguist) Malcolm David Ross (born 1942) is an Australian linguist. He is the emeritus professor of linguistics at the Australian National University. Ross is best known among linguists for his work on Austronesian and Papuan languages, historical linguistics, and language contact (especially metatypy). He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1996. Career Ross served as the Principal of Goroka Teachers College in Papua New Guinea from 1980 to 1982, during which time he self-statedly become interested in local languages, and began to collect data on them. In 1986, he received his PhD from the ANU under the supervision of Stephen Wurm, Bert Voorhoeve and Darrell Tryon. His dissertation was on the genealogy of the Oceanic languages of western Melanesia, and contained an early reconstruction of Proto Oceanic. Malcolm Ross introduced the concept of a linkage, a group of languages that evolves via dialect differentiation rather than by tree-like spli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tanah Merah Language (other) Tanah Merah (Tanahmerah) may refer to either of two Papuan languages: Sumuri language Sumuri or Sumeri (one of two Papuan languages also known as Tanah Merah language (other), Tanah Merah) is a language spoken in Sumuri District, Teluk Bintuni Regency on the Bomberai Peninsula by about a thousand people. Distribution I ... (Trans–New Guinea) Tabla language (Sentani) See also * Tanah Merah (other) {{Dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Teluk Bintuni Regency Teluk Bintuni Regency or Bintuni Bay Regency is a regency of West Papua Province of Indonesia. It covers an area of 18,637 km2, comprising administrative districts on three sides of Bintuni Bay, a gulf that separates the Bird's Head Peninsula and Bomberai Peninsula which together form the main geographical constituents of the province; it had a population of 52,422 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011 and 87,083 at the 2020 Census;Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 90,101 (comprising 52,005 males and 38,096 females).Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, ''Kabupaten Teluk Bintuni Dalam Angka 2024'' (Katalog-BPS 1102001.9206) The administrative centre is the town of Bintuni. Geography The Bintuni Bay area is one of the new expansion districts in the province of West Papua which was ratified by the Plenary Session of the Indonesian House of Representatives on 12 November 2002. Located between the southern coas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Papuan Languages The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a genetic relationship. New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse region in the world. Besides the Austronesian languages, there arguably are some 800 languages divided into perhaps sixty small language families, with unclear relationships to each other or to any other languages, plus many language isolates. The majority of the Papuan languages are spoken on the island of New Guinea, with a number spoken in the Bismarck Archipelago, Bougainville Island and the Solomon Islands to the east, and in Halmahera, Timor and the Alor archipelago to the west. The westernmost language, Tambora in Sumbawa, is extinct. One Papuan language, Meriam, is spoken within the national borders of Australia, in the eastern Torres Strait. Several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Language Isolate A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. Basque in Europe, Ainu and Burushaski in Asia, Sandawe in Africa, Haida and Zuni in North America, Kanoê in South America, and Tiwi in Oceania are all examples of such languages. The exact number of language isolates is yet unknown due to insufficient data on several languages. One explanation for the existence of language isolates is that they might be the last remaining member of a larger language family. Such languages might have had relatives in the past that have since disappeared without being documented, leaving them an orphaned language. One example is the Ket language spoken in central Siberia, which belongs to the wider Yeniseian language family; had it been discovered in recent times independently from its now extinct relatives, such as Yugh and Kott, it would have been classified as an isolate. Another explanation for language isolates is that they aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]